What are you Talking About?

It is a major pet peeve of mine when people who clearly know next to nothing about a given topic insist upon talking about it at length regardless.  This most often seems to be an issue when it comes to current events. In today’s world we get our news from so many sources in what is literally a 24-7 news cycle. There are tons of TV networks, radio shows, the internet, etc. and somehow people still seem to be clueless.  For example at work the other day I over heard a guy at work asking another co-worker “Did you hear that Venus and Serena Williams bought the Miami Dolphins?” I interjected that they had bought a fraction of the franchise but that I was 99% certain that no team was owned by just one person and that when people invest in teams they buy percentages of the franchise sort of like stock.  He rebutted that “you don’t think they can afford to buy a team? They both make like millions of dollars a year.” And I had to educate him to the fact that teams aren’t worth millions of dollars, NFL and MLB franchises are valued in the BILLIONS of dollars, I mean think about it… the players all make millions, just put that all together and think about how big we’re talking.  He still thought I was crazy. And I told him that if Serena and Venus Williams had just bought THE Miami Dolphins that there were going to be a lot of pissed off people like Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony and Gloria Estefan etc… because they just got their asses bought out.

The conversation somehow moved from The Williams Sisters to Jay-Z when he proudly told me that “Jay-Z owns a basketball team.” I corrected him that once again he own like %1.5 of a basketball team and some Russian dude just bought the majority share of the team.  I mean apparently this guy thinks that celebrities buy teams like us regular people buy socks. It just frustrates me to no end when people talk about stuff with an air of authority like they know what’s going on and fill the mind’s of others around them with crap and all the while have no freaking clue that they’re completely wrong. And I’m not expecting people to know everything about everything in the world, or even something about everything. I just ask that people be aware of the fact that they’re talking out of their asses and… therefore, shut the hell up.  There is an old adage that I remember Thumper from Bambi teaching me as a child “If you don’t have something nice to say, then don’t say nothing at all.” Now I’ve never followed that one very well myself and this blog is evidence of that, but I did adapt my own version of that thought. “If you don’t have anything smart to say, then shut your stupid ass up… I mean, don’t say nothing at all.”

Team Spirit

So, football season has officially arrived and being the awesome wife that I am I have been watching football all day.  And I’m actually one of those women who likes football, I know the players I can have an intelligent conversation about the teams, I play fantasy football… I ACTUALLY like football.  Unfortunately a lot of girls seem to pretend to like football. I suppose for some it’s the only way they can hang out with their boyfriends or husbands on Sundays, Monday nights and the occasional Thursday between mid September and early February.  But it seems like some girls pretend to like football because “the guys think it’s hot.” And I freaking hate it when girls play those games.  And without fail they always root for the team their boyfriend/husband likes. Or the worst of all, they still root for the team their Daddy rooted for, because they don’t have enough available brain cells to make their own choice. Sadly I don’t think they even realize they are being ridiculous.

I can just imagine it now:  a girl wearing a pink Tom Brady jersey (because he’s like… SUPER HOT!) sits in a Buffalo Wild Wings with her boyfriend, drinking an appletini and talking about her favorite receiver, “you know the black guy… what’s his name? Oh yeah Adrian Fitzgerald from the San Diego Giants.” You should not be able to root for any team without knowing at least 3 players on the aforementioned team, at least know what their colors are, and be able to tell someone what city they play in (bonus points if you can also name the state that city resides in).  And for the record on the topic of your favorite teams color: whatever it may be, I know without a shadow of a doubt that it is not now, nor has it ever been… baby pink.  So unless it’s October (Breast Cancer Awareness Month), you actually are a baby, or you have accidentally washed your white jersey with a red sock, throw away your pink jerseys.  Football and pastels just simply should never mix, I hate it when girls try to fem up every single thing in the world. It’s a sport where big sweaty dudes smash into each other, people scream, drink beer and wave Terrible Towels… Oh God! They don’t make pink Terrible Towels do they?